User Manual

User's Guide Fireface 800 © RME

Using the hotkeys I, O and P the complete row each of Input, Playback and Output channels

can be toggled between visible and invisible. Hotkey S switches Submix view on/off. Those

four hotkeys have the same functionality as the buttons in the View section of the Quick Access

Panel. The Level Meter Setup dialog can be opened via F2 (as in DIGICheck).

Hotkey M toggles Mute Master on/off (and with this performs a global mute on/off). Hotkey X

toggles the Matrix view on/off (see chapter 19), hotkey T the mixer view. Hotkey L links all

faders as stereo pairs.

Further hotkeys are available to control the configuration of the Level Meter (see chapter 18.9):

Key 4 or 6: Display range 40 or 60 dB

Key E or R: Numerical display showing Peak or RMS

Key 0 or 3: RMS display absolute or relative to 0 dBFS

18.6 The Quick Access Panel

This section includes additional options, further improving the handling of TotalMix. The Master

button for Mute and Solo has already been described, they allow for group-based working with

these functions.

In the View section the single rows can be made visible or invisible. If the inputs are not

needed for a pristine playback mix, the whole upper row falls out of the picture after a click on

the input button. If the hardware outputs don't interest you either, the surface can thus be re-

duced to the playback channels to save space. All combinations are possible.

Submix sets all routing windows to the same selection as described before. Deactivating Sub-

mix automatically recalls the previous view.

The mixer can also be made smaller horizontally and vertically. This way TotalMix can be

made substantially smaller and space-saving on the desktop/screen, if you have to monitor or

set only a few channels or level meters.

The Presets are one of the mightiest and most useful features of TotalMix. Be-

hind the eight buttons, eight files are hidden (see next chapter). These contain the

complete mixer state. Just try it: all faders and other settings follow the changing

of preset(s) in real-time, just by a single mouse click. The Save button allows for

storing the present settings in the present preset. You can change back and forth

between a signal distribution, complete input monitoring, a stereo and mono mix,

and various submixes without any problem.

Also here, RME's love for details can be seen. If any parameter is being altered

after loading a preset (e. g. moving a fader), the preset display flashes in order to

announce that something was changed, still showing, which state the present mix

is based on.

If no preset button is lit, another preset had been loaded via the File menu and

'Open file'. Mixer settings can of course be saved the usual way, and with long file

names.

Up to three Firefaces can be used simultaneously. The Card buttons switch between the cards.

Holding down Ctrl while clicking on button Card2 will open a second window, instead of replac-

ing the current window content.

The number of ADAT channels is reduced automatically when entering Double Speed mode

(88.2 and 96 kHz). The display is adjusted accordingly, and all fader settings remain stored

(even the invisible ones).